Minsk nourishes the hope of changing the attitude of the European Union to Belarus
Nina Gurina. Minsk nourishes the hope of change the EU's policy regarding Belarus and the European support its economic development, said Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Belarus Elena Kupchina.
The European Union alleging human rights violations in Belarus in 2012 expanded introduced in early winter 2010 punishment on the country, for example, limiting the entry of Belarusian bureaucrats to the site of the European Union, and made it a condition of improvement of relations, the release of all " political prisoners ". Minsk claims that political prisoners in the country. The Council of the European Union extended punishment against Belarus until 31 October 2015.
The Belarusian authorities have many times noted some recovery and the thaw in relations between Minsk and Brussels over the past period of time, as well as among them on the background of the role of Belarus in the conflict settlement in the South-East of Ukraine. The parties are meeting to improve relations.
"We hope that the EU will re-validate their policy regarding Belarus and will help us in strengthening the economic dimension of our independence through access to the resources of the European financial institutions (such as the European investment Bank and EBRD) will support our entry into the WTO," Kupchina said in the interview to the newspaper The Slovenia Times.
The text of the interview posted Tuesday on the Internet office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Belarus. In her expressions, " it is in the interests of Belarus, and the EU and, increasingly, in the interest of regional stability."
Deputy head of the foreign Ministry recalled that the Republic continues to be placed under political and economic pressure from the West for almost 20 years." However, despite the different punishments and limits, the country is developing dynamically and in many ways is the leader among the EU's Eastern neighbors